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Arundo
Banks of Escondito near Eagle Pass. Apt 24/52.
Brydow-
Upper leaves 1" long, 1¼" wide at base; smooth below, slightly roughened above. Spikes ceps
3-4 lines long, ciliate, purplish elongated - 2
long 3-4" wide. Vascular 8-10' crest. Scabrous.
Speculae 6¼" pale straw color. Smooth & shining
above; 4 florent. Glumes nearly equal, 2 reed
more or less cupped on the rims. Acuminate.
The upper awns about longest & acuminate
with pointed tips and almost equaling the flowers;
flowers: except the uppermost perfect, lower
paleas hyaline strongly 3 reed, alternate &
fid at the apex. The mid rib prolonged into
a short seta. Clothed below with aspires white
near its own length; crushed at the
base & partially inclining the upper palea
which is about half as long as the lower.
Scarmine. Pube present ciliate on the rims
truncate at the apex & somewhat dentulate.
Squamae 2 (3) fleshy. Styles 2 - Styges purple
plumas with simple denticulate hairs,
No note is made of the length of the plant
- it be compared with a Doray-
Dry like Doray Capensis her.